Bourke-white margaret biography
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Summary of Margaret Bourke-White
Following a highly successful early career in architectural and industrial photography, Bourke-White gained international recognition, not so much for her commercial work and/or her art photography, but more for her Photojournalism which came to the public's attention through her long association with LIFE magazine. Emerging as one of, if not the, most respected news photographer of her generation, Bourke-White was an intrepid adventurer who placed herself at the very center of some of the twentieth century's most significant and challenging historical events. She helped chronical the effects of the Great Depression, became the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Russia, and claimed the honor of being the first accredited hona American WWII photographer. As part of the General Patton cavalcade, meanwhile, she witnessed the liberation of Nazi death camps, including Buchenwald, before attending the creation of Pakistan an
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Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White studied at the University of Michigan and then at Cornell University where she first discovered photography in She started taking pictures of buildings and engines. Henri Lucewho created the magazine Fortunewas very impressed with her work and decided to hire her as editor-in-chief in In November her picture of the Fort Peck dam makes the cover of Lifemagazine. It was the beginning of a long collaboration () and the real beginning of her career. She traveled to USSR in and then worked with E. Caldwellon the subject of poverty in the US (). She is then a photographer for the US Air Force and travels to Moscow, Germany, India, South Africa, and Korea. At the same time, she works for advertising agencies. At the end of the 50s, she has to stop working because of Parkinson disease.
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Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer and documentary photographer.(–)
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Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, – August 27, ) was an American photographer and documentary photographer.[1] She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan,[2] was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.[3][4][5]
Early life
[edit]Margaret Bourke-White,[6] born Margaret White[7] in the Bronx, New York,[8] was the daughter of Joseph White, a non-practicing Jew whose father came from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent.[9] She grew up in Middlesex, New Jersey (the Joseph and Minnie White House in Middlesex), and graduat